A sentence from an excerpt indicating that the author was influenced by Henry David Thoreau reads:
American essayist, poet, and practicing philosopher Henry David Thoreau is known for practicing the tenets of transcendentalism set out in his masterpiece Walden (1854). He was also a defender of civil liberties, as evidenced by his essay Civil Disobedience (1849).
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American Renaissance figure, writer, naturalist, florist, reformer, philosopher, and surveyor. Walden remains his most famous work, spending two years "in the woods" at Walden Pond, a lake in Concord, Massachusetts.
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, practicing philosopher, and poet notorious for his support of transcendentalist teachings.
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